skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"And you will have experience that proves to you that the urge is only a suggestion. You are in control."

This is the most interesting part to me. Don't we always act on the urge that is strongest at the moment? If I decide to continue to meditate even though I have an urge to stop, doesn't that just mean that the urge to continue happened to be stronger than the urge to stop? Did I really get to choose which of those urges was strongest at that moment? Of course, this gets into questions of free will, which has been discussed on HN before. But when I meditate, it becomes very clear that I am definitely not in control of my thoughts, feelings, and urges. I see that I have multiple, competing urges at any given moment and that I don't control which urge emerges as the victor and compels me to act.
Form Encryption in JavaScript
Show HN: Soragora Helps You Build Real-Time, Multiplayer Mobile Games
Because it's untrusted: it runs in the sandbox.
Custom Channels is hiring talented gunslingers
If you look at the home pages for both products, it's absolutely clear which one uses their own "medicine".

http://optimizely.com

https://www.omniture.com/en/products/conversion/test-and-tar...
Would you buy Turkey and Gravy Soda? Gross, but can't look away
Satellite burns up following SpaceX rocket glitch
So has anyone ever intentionally used this feature?
Google facing imminent antitrust lawsuit
This kind of non-obvious behavior seems like a dark side of Postel's Law.
اغنية تامر حسنى حبيبى يارسول الله يوتيوب
For those too lazy to convert, that's 0xDEADBEEF and 0xB16B00B5, respectively.

EDIT: Fun fact: Chrome's address bar will convert hex IPs for you on the fly. Try typing in http://0xDEADBEEF and look in the suggest box.
How and why I avoid nested attributes in rails
Understand the abc Conjecture
TiVo launches developer channel
There seems to be an empirical law: You can't sandbox code securely :)
Apple Agrees To Pay Swiss Railway Service For Clock Design
Here's one study that I'm familiar with-
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19773563

They correlated mindfulness study with improvements in several aspects of mental well-being.
Ask HN: Is outsourcing to India considered bad/unproductive?
My friend and I (both based in bay area) bid for a web design project recently for which we are a good fit. The CTO of the client companywas very concerned that we might outsource to India(I am an Indian). He told us that he and his friends had many horror stories regarding outsourcing there.

Does this mean that India outsourcing story is over? Or is it problem only for small guys? I hear even giants like Infosys are in trouble nowadays.

Any pointers for how budding companies that want to do projects for other companies, like ours, can prosper will be really appreciated.
Ugh. I'm so sick of this quote it's guaranteed to get you ignored permanently.
"Grow": not really a transitive verb. But the misuse is becoming ever more popular.

If you build your personal brand, it grows.

But you don't die germs; you kill them. You don't exist something; you create it.

Hooray for the trendiness of ignorance.
The most common reason I have heard is that NVidia doesn't own all the software in the driver. Second most common is fear of patent trolls.
Ask HN: Hacking away right now - what travel questions to solve?
In between a hackathon, building a travel app that mashes foursquare 'tips' with curated Quora, to produce "Dos & Donts" about places & activities. What questions / concerns do you have about places & things-to-do when you travel ?

[http://www.banjarey.com/what_travel_concern]
I worked on Microsoft's Windows 2000 team back in the late 1990s. There was an experimental project to sandbox native code using just NT's ACLs. Fortunately, I don't think anything became of the project because it sounds like an infinite game of Whac-a-Mole.
pretty cool he should get hired bby google.
The only reason I've heard of it is that they had the Martin Gardner essay collections at my library growing up.
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We do payments (https://www.ribbon.co) and would love to show you our offices in SOMA.

hany@ribbon.co
Thanks! Founder here and yes, we're definitely expanding outside of health. I like your version as well - really flip the market on it's head.
Thank you, that's what I was going for! Piki will never use a markup language, but I plan to add drag-and-drop image embedding and right-click text stylization.

People who seem to take the most interest in this also express desire to use it locally. I'll have to figure out a way to cater to you folks.
Founder here - thank you HN for the support. Feel free to post questions / comments.

And for the record, this was inspired in part by PG's RFSs.
They're both valid approaches. The one is classic sales copy, the other is the new hip web x.0 look.

It's worth nothing that omniture pulls in a very very large amount of money, so they must be doing something right.
I'd like to know how a startup managed to get a .edu domain. The eligibility requirements are quite strict: https://net.educause.edu/edudomain/eligibility.asp
A typical, modern psychology research paper. After over 14,000 words, Doctor Grof concludes thus: "In my present understanding, archetypal astrology is the long-sought Rosetta stone of consciousness research ..."

So astrology is the answer? If I were a psychologist, I would ask Doctor Grof not to be on my side.
Those numbers are based on statistics from the 1960s, when transitioning was next to impossible, and are probably a couple orders of magnitude too low. More to the point, that threefold difference seems to be much smaller, if it exists at all.
I did not say the study is false or anything. I just tried to explain the sentiment of people accused of fostering a sexist industry.

For what it's worth (although this is tangential), I think the study is interesting but I can still think of a lot of questions to ask. And it wasn't about IT, the experiment was done with lab jobs.
Sorry, but this color scheme is unreadable. Contrast is your friend!

And I'd rather not see a bunch of "test" articles with one paragraph or so. Show me some dense, complex content, and maybe I'll grow interested (that and not having it 500 every 30 seconds).
I wouldn't consider this to be politics. It is not advocating a political position, or discussing the merits of a political position, or advocating or discussing the merits of particular politicians. Rather, it is about how a particular demographic that is of particular interest on HN but that is not covered much in the mainstream press is leaning.

The distinction is subtle, but I think important. For instance, an article on Romney's attempt to take all sides on all issues so as to appeal to whatever audience he is speaking to at the moment would be inappropriate politics if the theme of the article is that Romney's campaign is setting the record as the most dishonest campaign in Presidential history.

On the other hand, if the theme of the article was that in the age of the internet, when we have near instant access to news, and anything a politician says is widely reported, you might expect that the "all things to all people" approach would be a terrible failure, and yet it is working well for Romney, and so the article tries to explore WHY this is so, I'd say that would be quite appropriate for HN. It raises an interesting question of whether widespread access to information actually helps people make better decisions, or just makes it easier for them to find information to reinforce their preexisting beliefs and contrary information gets ignored. It could be the launching point of some very interesting non-political discussion.
Justin Bieber, A Stolen Computer, Naked Pics, Is It A Stunt
0x1234 is hexadecimal. 1234 is decimal. 01234 is octal. 0b1011011101111 is binary. It's de-facto standard, especially in the UNIX world.
Something similar happened to me, with a linked list as well (on a linked list, bubble sort is much easier to implement than other common sorting methods). Everything worked fine, until data volume increased by 2 orders of magnitude.
Local Search Marketing Is Your Best Investment
My impression of Academia was meh, since I think the last thing the world needs is yet another social networking startup. We shall see I guess.
I get Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/base/python_runtime/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/ext/webapp/_webapp25.py", line 710, in __call__
handler.get(*groups)
File "/base/data/home/apps/prebacked/1-090.362407118074871718/main.py", line 144, in get
template_values.update (self.event(), link_home = "current")
File "/base/data/home/apps/prebacked/1-090.362407118074871718/main.py", line 110, in event
var = Variables.gql("WHERE vertical= :1", vert).get() #Grab event details, stored in Variables database.
File "/base/python_runtime/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/ext/db/__init__.py", line 2102, in get
return results.next()
File "/base/python_runtime/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/ext/db/__init__.py", line 2314, in next
return self.__model_class.from_entity(self.__iterator.next())
File "/base/python_runtime/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/datastore/datastore_query.py", line 2816, in next
next_batch = self.__batcher.next()
File "/base/python_runtime/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/datastore/datastore_query.py", line 2678, in next
return self.next_batch(self.AT_LEAST_ONE)
File "/base/python_runtime/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/datastore/datastore_query.py", line 2715, in next_batch
batch = self.__next_batch.get_result()
File "/base/python_runtime/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/api/apiproxy_stub_map.py", line 604, in get_result
return self.__get_result_hook(self)
File "/base/python_runtime/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/datastore/datastore_query.py", line 2452, in __query_result_hook
self._batch_shared.conn.check_rpc_success(rpc)
File "/base/python_runtime/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/datastore/datastore_rpc.py", line 1222, in check_rpc_success
rpc.check_success()
File "/base/python_runtime/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/api/apiproxy_stub_map.py", line 570, in check_success
self.__rpc.CheckSuccess()
File "/base/python_runtime/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/api/apiproxy_rpc.py", line 133, in CheckSuccess
raise self.exception
OverQuotaError: The API call datastore_v3.RunQuery() required more quota than is available.
Beautiful app!
> Seth Robert's recent blog post gives a striking example: http://blog.sethroberts.net/2012/10/11/jama-jumps-to-conclus.... ; Tell someone about YOUR (n=1, but better controlled than most medical tests!) experiment with Vitamin D, and they'll likely counter with "Oh, but that has been refuted. It's just placebo". That's a big percentage of how EBM is used in practice.

Actually, it's funny that you bring that up. Yes, my own vitamin D self-experiments were more rigorous than Roberts's vitamin D experiments/anecdata, and both of my self-experiments used blinding precisely to avoid the placebo refutation, so anyone trying to refute them so simplistically would be engaged in poor reasoning; but Roberts is not innocent himself of poor reasoning himself!

I pointed out in his previous post on that study that his criticism makes no sense since the injection happened once a month, which implies the following dilemma (if we believe his criticism): the effect from bad timing should either be undetectable due to contaminating only 1/31 of the data (1 day out of each month), or if the negative effect is persistent over many days, renders every single anecdote & self-experiment (including mine) completely unreliable trash since none of them were expecting an effect which contaminates so many days. So either his criticism is wrong or his entire collection of data is worthless. (Besides that, plenty of vitamin D studies have shown benefits while completely ignoring administration time. What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.)

So maybe EBM is abused in practice... but I don't see your examples showing this.
Congrats! You just reinvented a web page from 1993.
well worth the read. thanks!
Rogers Wireless becomes world's foremost authority on spam
We are a ZeroCater client. They are awesome.
Whoops, blew threw my bandwidth. One sec
LOOOL, looks like somebody has exceeded their free app engine quota. Calling founder, I'm sure it will come back online soon.
This is just a me-too submission from the "1111-0111" thread going around.

http://www.reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/11d9ya/can_someo...
I figured that letting people write without an account was not worth the added complexity, especially for a minimum viable product. You are free to look at any of the published wikis; the interface for writing a wiki looks almost exactly the same. I made the sign-up process as painless as possible, in case you ever change your mind.
That's cool, I do the same and hadn't considered that others would too. :) I always cringed when my wife and kids crash around making a racket doing everything but I realized they were just making normal noise and my perception was warped from trying to do everything silently.
good way to discover shows!
I hate to say it, but this post honestly sounds like it comes from a startup idea Markov chain.

Anyway, I'm fond of the Luxe Guide [http://www.luxecityguides.com/] model: highly selective high-quality recommendations for a particular city/area. Not "here are 125 restaurants" like most tour books, but "here are the 10-12 you can't go wrong with as a visitor with only a few days."
Did they hit their app engine daily limit?
Good problem to have :)
Yep, what amazed us most was who WASN'T on top of the change yet, given Twitter's importance to branding these days. Well, and the free template.
He says that a minimal environment is required:

"...all you need is a native execution environment, a minimal interface for persistent state, an interface for external network communication and an interface for drawing pixels on the screen..."

Compared to a modern browser, you've lost the ability to upload and download files, the ability to open URLs in other apps (OAuth, anyone?), the ability to play sound, the ability to use hardware acceleration for video or 3D graphics....

He goes on to say: "This is an interface that is small enough that we would have a hope of making sure that it is bug free." I'm guessing that once you add all the extra stuff you need to reach feature-parity with current browsers, you're going to reach bug-parity with them too.
The other place Java lost the battle was in sticking to a closed, vendor-dictated implementation, that's slowly getting pulled into the massive hole of suck that is Oracle.
True story: Piki was Stipple's original name, some 3+ years ago. I don't remember now why we changed it...
haha true. Google is taking their sweet time getting things spooled up
Cached link:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache%3Awww.p...
FYI: UE does not end on UK, Germany or France
Aaaaand we're back.
"Why are they so afraid to mention this “one startup”?"

They don't want to legitimize you or give you any publicity. That's obvious and a good business strategy on their part. After all what do they have to gain by doing so?
...and we're back!
Gawker 'unmasks' notorious Redditor 'violentacrez'
Why did Facebook shut down credits?
Aha! That last quote puts it best. The OS should be a browser.

The core point here is that the OS should be able to run foreign applications without an 'install' process, just like I don't need to install a webpage to use it. I assume the OP is not suggesting that we strip all of the useful APIs from the web as we know it.
Isn't this already invented and called an iPad or Android? (Or more seriously, this is called NaCL).

But you want to have OpenGL (with shader compiler security bugs you could drive a truck through!). You want to read from cameras and disks, and post notifications and go fullscreen and read/write audio samples and do all the other unsafe things that browsers are currently implementing.

The syscall interface that's explored in the paper doesn't do any of those things; software rendering only, etc.

The challenge in this work is exposing the advanced high-end functionality (GL, media, window system, etc) in a way that's secure and can't be abused. The challenge isn't in defining a syscall interface that lets you run all-software apps (NaCL has solved that problem, but so did the JVM and qemu...). I feel like this paper completely ignores the real issues, and focuses on problems that have been solved well enough or are already understood...
Do you think it's worth to rename the framework?
Come visit Startup House (5th and Harrison) to meet us (http://attico.us) and various other startups.
Google Image Search For “Completely Wrong” Turns Up Mitt Romney Pictures
Hey zachliption,

Why would you say that ? Just want to understand.

The idea is to build a very selective "Dos & Donts" around a place / activity - this is not a recommendation for place (125 restaurants) but more like "what's good to eat here" or 'the chef's speciality is this' and other low-level details.

In any case this is just a weekend thing, but I would love to understand what would you have in a travel app that would give you more value than tripadvisor (lets say).
I am a regular contributor on HN but I work in this industry and so i am using a throwaway account.

Dan,
1.3 billion 'visitors' is a really vague representation. Is it user sessions or page views or number of unique visitors measured in one of the experiment/control groups?

Test & Target mbox hell as mentioned in the post is very very true. Learning to use it within one hour is a joke. The technology they use is really stale and hasn't changed a lot in the recent years. Many of the players who started after 2008/09 have far superior implementations, thanks to lot of advancements in browser technologies which T&T failed to capitalize.

I am very happy for Optimizely's success and these two posts will bring them a good amount of well deserved PR. Test & target and in fact a good number of other providers are way ahead of Optimizely in this game. The number of sessions/experiments is one good metric but it is definitely not the best one to measure the leader in the race.

* What is optimziely's ARR?

At 2800 customers paying $250/month [1], it should be around $8.5M. Lets be generous and make it $10M. A handful of T&T's high profile clients will be paying Adobe that amount.

* How many IR100, IR500 [2], top 100 travel, publishing, finance sites are in Optimizely's client list?

Builtwith's data is not very accurate. We have worked with the guy from builtwith to compute some lists and their methodologies are not very great. They just look for signals in the script tags and it throws lot of false positives. Out of my own interest, i have spent hours writing parsers and scripts to compile the list and Optimizely is not really in that picture.

You can have thousands of clients paying you hundreds of dollars or have a few hundred clients paying 5/6 figure amounts. Optimizely has been after the former while the other players including T&T have been targeting the latter. I guess Optimizely is now trying to expand their enterprise client list since that is where the big money is but it takes a lot more to compete in that arena with long sales cycles and vast requirements.

* How many user sessions are being served?

Requests is probably the worst measure. T&T mentioned it because they can show their artificially inflated metric which is a result of their terrible implementation. IMO, user sessions is a better measure. 1.3 billion user sessions (in 2 years)[3] is still no where close to what the other providers serve. Number of tests currently running is also a good measure.

Optimizely is a great product and they have made it super easy to run A/B tests but false proclamation claiming you are number one when you are not even close is not very nice.

[1] Optimizely probably has a good number of clients in that 2800+ who pay $10k-20K a month. The highest openly priced plan is $360. I guess it wouldn't be wrong to assume that 50% of the customers will be in one of the two lower plans ($17 or $71). Optimizely's current ARR would be somewhere between $5M to $10M (My guess!)

[2] http://www.internetretailer.com/top500/list/

[3] There was no mention of the timeline. So i assume it is from when they started in 2010.
I was thinking more of the two dots instead of three. (Interestingly, RFC 791 does not define dotted-quad notation. It must have been added later.)
Coding in the open
I'm sure if they release a 7" iPad we'll see a bump. I'm totally confused that the author totally ignored the upcoming event on October 23 where it will be announced: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/12/us-apple-miniipad-...
thanks, let us know if you have any suggestions or other feedback!
Not exactly. Where Piki lacks in collaboration features, I believe it's far ahead of any other wiki engine in terms of user experience, considering the user is someone who wishes to have a place to organize their own thoughts and ideas.
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Eratosthenes is basically NaCL taken to the logical extreme. NaCL itself doesn't go far enough, because it still exposes the traditional browser APIs, when really they should also be run in NaCL. They are fundamentally the same approach, but applied with different amounts.
We need salary it can't be called investment. hear us people
The code from the paper:

https://github.com/pbiggar/sorting-branches-caching
>have hyperlinks in either the 'website' field //

Isn't the website field for a hyperlink? (or at least a domain that is converted to a hyperlink?).

If I leave a comment but refer back to a related page on my blog is that automatically "spam" in your opinion.
I'd be in too. I wonder if that's necessarily true, startups in SF seem to be relatively open to devs wandering in, but I think you have a good point.
I find this entire approach fascinating.

That someone can post this on HN and get a bunch of invites back.

Does doing something like this scale? What if everybody just decided to post "hey I'm coming to SF is there a place for me to crash" or "hey I'm coming to NYC anyone want to have coffee?" or "I have a problem writing perl..."

Since there are companies that you are trying to reach, and you must have some idea of the type of company you want to reach, why not put some effort into doing something other than the obvious easiest thing which is to post an "Ask HN" and see who bites?

(For the record I wouldn't feel the same way if a top commenter who spends much time on HN made a similar request because at least they have put time and effort into HN (and I don't consider my karma as anywhere near that point for the record.)
Spammers and malware authors sometimes use this in an attempt to obfuscate URLs.
I haven't read the paper yet, but Google's spanner gives me hope that at some point in the near? future I won't have to worry about the details of consistency myself anymore.

That's a pretty concise way of expressing why we started building our product here at FoundationDB (http://foundationdb.com/). We're building a distributed key-value store with ACID transactions precisely so that developers building cool projects can stop worrying about all of the ins and outs of maintaining consistency by hand. If you'd like to give it a try, please feel free to sign up for our alpha -- it's just a quick form on our website (http://foundationdb.com/#get) and then you're welcome to download the software and check it out.
well, looks like this just got bumped off from the frontpage.
I tried to edit the article entitled "Internal server error" but the controls for contributing to it weren't intuitive enough.
I'm surprised people want to use it locally; I would have thought yet another local wiki would be the last thing people want.
Looks interesting, but it's unfortunate that the timing clashes with Startup School.
The quote is still meaningful in the context of social movements, but I agree that using it in the context of market competition is pretty tacky.